[Blindtlk] Driverless Cars

Tue Jan 3 21:13:16 UTC 2017

Because blind people don't need to be driving! Hasn't yet been done 
because such a  preposterous notion hasn't until now, occurred to any 
blind people, I guess. At 12:03 PM 1/2/2017, Jen via blindtlk wrote:
>Hi Jude and Gary,
>
>Thank you for your thought-provoking posts. Someone on another list was
>discussing the need for the universal design of appliances, so let's why
>can't the universal design approach be used for driverless cars with the
>technology already out there? For instance, JAWS and other screen readers
>have been out for over a decade now, so why couldn't screen reader
>technology be input into driverless cars to guide the potential blind
>driver?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude
>DaShiell via blindtlk
>Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 4:05 AM
>To: Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net>; Blind Talk Mailing List
><blindtlk at nfbnet.org>; Jen via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Driverless Cars
>
>Actually, the only reason flying cars are not in use now is because the FAA
>can't figure out how to control the air space from ground to 200 feet of
>altitude. Economical flying car design has already been patented and, if
>that happens, those will be manufactured out of one of our New England
>States, so no, none of this is beyond the realm of possibility. Does any of
>it become available to blind people? Most certainly not, not in this
>lifetime at least. Accessible medical devices aren't the law of the land,
>let alone driverless cars for the blind, not to mention accessible tv units.
>I'm not talking about cable, I'm talking about the tv units themselves.
>Maybe in two more of my lifetimes, we get accessible tv units, and maybe in
>another three lifetimes after that, we get accessible medical devices, but I
>wouldn't bet the farm on it.
>
>On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Carly Mihalakis wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 03:09:41
> > From: Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net>
> > To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>,
> >     Jen via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Driverless Cars
> >
> > Don't mean to be a nay-sayer but can you see this tech actually happening?
>I
> > sure can't, or at least in not such a way for it's being available to all
> > blind people.
> > CarAt 11:15 PM 1/1/2017, Jude DaShiell via blindtlk wrote:
> >> You don't drive in a driverless car.  The only things that get in them
>are
> >> passengers and luggage of various types.
> >> As I understand the technology it's going to be under-designed and that
> >> under-design will cost lives.  Not so much of passengers but rather
> >> pedestrians. These cars would need to get flight capabilities so that if
> >> negotiation of a section of road were temporarily impossible they could
> >> lift off for distance sufficient to bypass the obstacles and continue on
> >> their way.  Hovercraft technology could do this if it were part of
>standard
> >> design but that'll not be the case for the first vehicles put on the
>roads.
> >> A school bus and large truck having an accident in an intersection just
> >> ahead of a driverless car that happens too soon for the driverless car to
>
> >> take an alternate route to bypass such an accident with children and
> >> whatever the truck looses all over the intersection would be one of the
> >> scenarios where flight capability would be more than a nice to have
>feature
> >> on a driverless car.
> >>
> >> On Sun, 1 Jan 2017, Jen via blindtlk wrote:
> >>
> >>> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 16:22:07
> >>> From: Jen via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> >>> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> >>> Cc: Jen <spiderweb1 at sbcglobal.net>
> >>> Subject: [Blindtlk] Driverless Cars
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> Happy New Year!
> >>>
> >>> What is your opinion of driver-less cars? Personally, I can't wait for
> >>> their
> >>> arrival on the road! I'm totally blind from birth and would like the
> >>> chance
> >>> to drive, just to feel what it feels like. My best friend, who happens
>to
> >>> be
> >>> sighted, feels otherwise though.
> >>>
> >>> How about you?
> >>>
> >>>
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